On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 4:23 AM Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com> wrote:
Declare Facebook a public utility and eliminate advertising by replacing with a fee or what you call a tariff. Breaking up does not always work. Facebook is like a natural monopoly - people want one site to connect with all their 'friends'. No one is going to use several Facebooks as social media platform. They want one.

Regards,

Roderick. 

I think you would quickly find that Facebook became a much emptier place 
the moment you started charging standardized tariffs to access the service.

How many people here would shell out $10/month to scroll endlessly
through their timeline, or wall, or whatever facebook calls it these days?

I don't even use Facebook for free these days; charging a tariff?  Yeah,
that's going to result in a ghost town pretty quickly.

People want one *free* site to connect to all their friends.  They've already 
learned that it's a non-starter trying to get their friends to join them on a 
platform that charges a monthly tariff. 

It's only a natural monopoly because the advertising is subsidizing the 
free nature of it.  Take away the free aspect, and suddenly it's not a
very natural monopoly at all.

Matt